September 13, 2014 - Mack McCarter of Gatlinburg, TN won the 6th Annual Buddy Rogers Memorial 44 for the Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series in spectacular fashion Saturday night at Tazewell Speedway driving the McCarter Brothers Racing CVR. After a race-long duel, McCarter held off a driver he has the highest respect for; Ronnie Johnson of Chattanooga, TN. To get to the checkered flag coming off the fourth turn on the final lap, McCarter had to go through a slow lapped car and then defend the point against a hard charging Johnson to take the win sideways at the finish line. For most of the race, Johnson kept looking inside McCarter to challenge for the lead, but the momentum McCarter had coming off the corners kept him in the lead. The only thing that could work to Johnson’s advantage was lapped traffic, and it almost got him his third win of the season in the final turn of the final lap. McCarter led into the third turn on the final lap with Johnson running right in his tire tracks. Coming off the fourth turn, the lapped car of Brian Shockley of Thorn Hill, TN was running about half speed right in the groove McCarter was running. Just when everyone thought Johnson had run out of tricks to try and pass McCarter, the Chattanooga Flash had one more in the bag. Seeing that McCarter had committed to the groove the slow lapped car was in, Johnson stepped to the outside and tried to use Shockley as a pick, and drive around McCarter for the win. McCarter was not to be denied and refused to take another second-place to Johnson. McCarter dropped the hammer, moved Shockley out of the way, and then drifted up the banking to defend the point. McCarter’s right-rear made contact with Johnson’s left-front getting McCarter sideways under the checkered flag for the $4,400 top prize. Johnson had to settle for second in the NeSmith Chevrolet Special.

Chverolet Performance Super Late Models Buddy Rogers Memorial
1. 51 Mack McCarter
2. 5 Ronnie Johnson
3. 95 Brandon Williams
4. 99G Jacob Grizzle
5. 66 Jake Knowles
6. 55 Ryan King
7. 110 Brent Barrett
8. 00 Josh Henry
9. 47 Tyler Crowder
10. 33 David Brannon
11. 11 Lavon Sparks
12. 17 Brian Shockley
13. 88 Mark Dowdy
14. 8J Jadon Frame
15. 10 Matthew Turner
DNS 3 Brad Hall

Jordon Horton of Sneedvile came into Saturday night's action leading the Sportsman points despite being winless at The Taz since June 21st. Josh Fields of Tazewell set fast time in qualifying among eleven entries with a lap of 12.358 seconds. Fields would draw the three on the invert draw starting on the inside of row two. Horton, who qualified third, would take the point alongside Clyde Overholt of Tazewell. With the drop of the green Horton won the drag race to turn one with Overholt, Fields, and Wade Howerton giving chase. After recently parting ways with his car owner Horton has spent the past few weeks getting acclimated to a Warriror Race Car. The Sneedville Sniper would lead every lap of the Sportsman feature scoring his eighth Tazewell Speedway win of the season and pocketing the $700 top prize in the James England Farms, Robert Brook's Cattle, Mullins Farms, Southern Pride Land & Cattle, Ms Wanda Lyle sponsored Warrior Race Car.

Sportsman
1. 1G Jordon Horton
2. 4 Clyde Overholt
3. 11 Josh Fields
4. 15 Wade Howerton
5. 50 Alan Cole
6. 29 Chris Raines
7. G71 Dustin Hoover
8. 17 Tony Horton
9. G7 Billy Gordon
10. 21 Brian Howerton
DNS 24 Andy Wilder
DNS 77 Steve Carr

Phillip Thompson of Knoxville set fast time among nine entries in Classic Car time trials with a lap of 14.208 seconds. Robbie Sands, Thompson's teammate and step-father, would earn the pole after Thompson drew a two on the invert draw. Thompson would use the ouyside starting position to his advantage as he shot into the lead coming out of turn two followed by Sands, John Stevens, Justin Overton and Richie Overholser. By lap three Thompson had a seven car length lead over Sands. Behind him Stevens, Overton, Overholser, and Joel Wolfenbarger put on a show as they battled lap after lap for position. Overton, still looking for his first win, came into last night's action tied for the points lead with Wolfenbarger. By lap eleven Thompson began picking off lap traffic and working his way through the field. In the end Thompson picked up his sixth win of the season and his first since July 3rd in the Skyline Transportation, Filmax Filtration Systems, Logistics Detailers, Flynn Carpet Service Classic Car with power from an Eagle Race Engine.

Classic Car
1. 24 Phillip Thompson
2. 5 Robbie Sands
3. 59 John Stevens
4. 99 Justin Overton
5. 88 Richie Overholser
6. 13J Joel Wolfenbarger
7. C74 Cliff Lane
8. 2 Chris Evans
9. 8 Eli Keck

Jeromy Collins of Tazewell drew the pole for the 4 Cylinder feature sharing the front row with Danny Pennington of Pennington Gap, VA. Pennington took the early lead with Collins right on his back bumper. By lap five Kurt Owens of Newport, who started on the tail of the field, had worked his way up to third and on lap nine took second away from Collins. Owens then set his sights on Pennington. On lap ten Owens made contact with the back bumper of Pennington sending him spinning in turn four. Track officials sent Owens to the tail of the fields for rough driving and gave Pennington back his spot. Pennington, looking for his first win, lead the remaining laps. The Victory Lane celebration was short lived as a post race inspection found Pennington's engine illegal. Jeromy Collins was awarded the win, his first of the season. Owens worked his way back through the field to finish second.

4 Cylinder
1. 44J Jeromy Collins
2. 7UP Kurt Owens
3. 72 Rufus Collett
4. 99 Chuck McMahan
5. 1 Mark Wallace
6. 2A Austin Fancher
DQ'd 21 Danny Pennington.

Jonathan Miracle scored his eighth Pure Street feature win of the year in the Dennis Whitaker owned Dodge Ram pickup sponosred by Overholt Racing and Fabrication and Noah's Wholesale.

Pure Street
1. 26 Jonathan Miracle
2. G2 Austin Neely
3. 12H Hayston Collett
4. 58 Kevin Smith
5. H1 Jerry Ledford
6. 92T Travis Crosby

Next Saturday night September 20th Tazewell Speedway will present the Buster Cupp Memorial paying $500 to win in the Pure Street featuring honoring our former track steward and Pure Street competitor. Tazewell Late Models, Sportsman, Classic Cars, and 4 Cylinders will also be in action.